Introduction
Asparagus vine is found everywhere in India, but it is grown more in northern India. Asparagus vine is also planted in gardens and bungalows to enhance beauty. Asparagus vine grows upwards with the support of the tree, which has many thorns. Its branches and sub-branches spread all around and make it bush-like. The thorns of asparagus are 6 to 12 mm long, somewhat crooked. Its leaves are 4 to 6 inches long, pointed, small and tubular together in bunches. Asparagus flowers are small, fragrant, 3 to 5 mm in diameter, grow in bunches on the clusters. Due to its thousands of flowers growing together, the entire vine looks white in the month of November. Asparagus fruits are round, pea-like and look red when ripe, in which 1-2 black seeds come out. The root is long and round like a fruit, thick like a finger, white, dull, yellow in color and grows in hundreds of roots. These roots are used as medicine. The taste of asparagus is bland.
Properties
Asparagus is good for intelligence, stomach irritation, heavy, chemical, beneficial for eyes, semen enhancer, cold, increases milk, strengthens the body, removes diarrhea and Vata Pitta, cleans the impurities of blood, and swelling etc.
Harmful effects
It causes headache.
Treatment of various diseases
1. Cold:
If 10 grams of asparagus is mixed with five black peppers and mixed in water and drunk in the morning and evening, then cold is cured.
2. Arthritis :
Grind 20-20 grams of Shatavar and Pepper and filter it and take 5-5 grams with milk in the morning to cure Arthritis.
3. Impotence :
Make powder of Shatavar, Asgandh, Ela, Kulanjan and Banshlochan. Mix 6 grams of sugar in 3 grams of this powder and eat it and then drink milk, impotence ends in a few months.
Boil 4 grams of Shatavar and Asgandh powder in milk and drink it, impotence ends.
Boil Shatavar in milk for a long time and add sugar candy and drinking this milk, impotence ends in a few months.
Put 3 grams of Shatavar powder in milk and boil it, then add sugar candy to it and drink it, this ends the weakness of sexual intercourse.
4. Headache:
Grind fresh root of Shatavari and extract its juice. Boil it by mixing sesame oil in equal quantity. Then, massaging head with this oil cures headache and half headache.
5. Dry cough:
By boiling 10 grams of Shatavari, 10 grams of gooseberry leaves and 10 grams of sugar candy with 150 ml water and drinking it 3 times a day, dry cough is cured.
By boiling asparagus, gooseberry leaves and sugar candy in water and drinking it, dry cough is cured.
6. Extracting milk clots from breasts:
By grinding 50-50 grams of Shatavari, fennel, Bidarikand and filtering it and taking 5 grams of it with milk or water, the milk clots in the breasts of women melts and comes out.
7. Leucorrhoea:
Grind 150 grams of Shatawari and filter it and boil it in the quantity of 20 grams with 200 ml milk and 200 ml water. When half of it remains, add sugar to it and consume it in the morning and evening. This cures leucorrhoea.
8. Leucorrhoea:
Making powder of Shatawari and consuming it with honey cures leucorrhoea.
9. Bleeding from vagina:
Mix 20 grams of Shatawari and Gokhru root, 160 ml goat milk and 1 liter water and heat it on fire. When little water is left, filter it and give it to the woman to drink. This stops the bleeding from vagina.
10. In semen related disease:
Drinking Shatawari juice or Amla juice or Gokhru decoction mixed with honey purifies the semen.
Make powder by taking equal quantity of Shatavar, white musli, asgandh, kaunch seeds, gokhru and amla. Eating 3-3 grams of this powder in the morning and evening increases Dhatu (semen).
By making a drink of 10 grams to 20 grams of Shatavar powder with sugar and milk and drinking it in the morning and evening, thinness of Dhatu (semen) is removed and semen becomes thick.
Tearing wet Shatavar and removing the middle straws and eating it mixed with powdered sugar candy with milk increases Dhatu.
11. Arthritis:
Massaging the knees with Shatavar oil daily cures arthritis (knee pain).
12. Nahrua:
Patient of Nahrua gets benefit by making Thandai (cold sherbet) of Shatavar and drinking it.
13. Insomnia:
By mixing ghee in Shatavar Kheer and consuming it, insomnia (sleeplessness) is cured.
14. Night blindness:
By cooking the soft leaves of Shatavar in ghee and eating it, night blindness is cured.
15. Vata cough:
By mixing 1 gram of Peepal powder in a little warm decoction of Shatavar and giving it to the patient 3 times a day, Vata cough and pain is cured.
16. Breathlessness and fainting:
By boiling 1 gram of Shatavar powder, 1 gram of ghee, 4 grams of milk and cooking it in ghee and drinking it as per your strength, fainting is cured along with diseases like acidity, blood bile, Vata and bile disorders, breathing (asthma) and thirst (pyasthma) etc. are cured.
17. Increase in milk in a woman:
Taking 10 grams of asparagus powder with milk increases the milk in a woman's breasts. Grinding asparagus in cow's milk and consuming it makes the woman's milk sweet and nutritious.
18. Dysentery:
Grinding wet asparagus with milk and filtering it and drinking it 3-4 times a day stops bloody diarrhea.
19. Urinary Tract Infection:
Boil 20 gms of Gokhru Panchang and equal quantity of Shatavari in 500 ml water, filter it and add 10 gms of Mishri and 2 tsp of honey to it and give it to the patient. Burning sensation in urine and obstruction of urine is cured.
20. Fever:
Giving 6 ml of Shatavari root juice with equal quantity of Giloy juice and jaggery to the patient 3 times a day subsides fever quickly.
21. Impotence:
Drinking 10 gms to 20 gms of Shatavari powder mixed in milk with sugar in the morning and evening cures impotence and also removes weakness of the body.
